TURNING FINANCIAL FEARS INTO FUNDRAISING FANTASIES

The phone rang. I answered it. The woman on the other end was a librarian who heard my presentation on how to earn money at the Colorado Educational Media Association Conference a couple of weeks ago. She cheerfully said, “I enjoyed your presentation very much and now I need the names of people to call and ask for money?” Calmly and quietly I asked, “Do you have a project in mind?” Only slightly haltingly she said, “We just have so many kids here and I need to have money to pay for another librarian.”